Improved sash-holdbh



titled tatca @anni @imita J. O. YOUNGMOF TOLEDO, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 96,295, dated October 26, 1869.

The. Schedule referredzto in these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To vall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. C. YOUNG, of Toledo, in the county of Lucas, and State'of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Window-Sash Fast- '.eners; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thcreon.

My \invention consists 'ofthe arrangement of a pinion provided with an axle, which is'adjustable longitudinally upon itsbearings, in combination with a spring and toothed bar. v

' In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is aback View of awindow-frame, with my improved fastening' attached, a portion of thecasing and `of the metallic box beinglcut away, better to show the pinion engaging with the toothed har on the sash.

Figure 2 is a detached lateral view of a -portion of the window-frame, with my fastener attached.-

In the drawings, the m'ndow-frame is shown at A, the casing at B, and the sash at O, upon which is fastened a toothed bar, E.

Fastened in one side of the frame is a metallic box,- I), with bearings for the axle F, ofthe pinion G.

Upon theaxle is acoiled spring, H, which presses thepinion toward the-front of the windowtrama and thus locks thepinion in the box D, as seen in lig. '1. In this position ofthe pinion, the sash is also locked.

By placing a key, I, on the end of the axle F, as

Aseen in f. 2 the axis and inion are easil pressed back, compressing the coiled spring, and unlocking the pinion, when the window-sash maybe raised or lowered at pleasure.

Upon withdrawing the key, the coiled spring forcesl 4act upon the pinion, so' astolock the sash, in the manner substantially as described.

. J. G. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

J. J. PENFIELD, A. KINGSBURY. 

